Ornitholof/y of Cyprus. 593 



lOG. Daulias luscima Linn. 



Tlie Nightingale arrives in the island in considerable 

 numbers at the end of Marcli and beginning of April. 

 During the latter month and the early part of May the 

 great majority pass on to the north, but, though I have not as 

 yet personally seen the nest or eggs, I am assured that some 

 remain for the summer and breed in the mountains. 

 Glaszner has obtained it in the middle of September, during 

 whieh month and the following its return passage doubtless 

 takes place. It is really quite abundant at the spring 

 migration, and from the 21st of March up till the 10th of 

 May, 1909, Mr. Baxendale, llorsbrugh, and I took a number 

 of specimens and must have heard and seen scores. I 

 have often heard and seen it in a small mosque garden 

 inside the "walled city ^' of Nicosia. But much later dates 

 than ours have been authenticated. Glaszner took a specimen 

 at the end of JNIay near Platres, a village about 4000 feet up 

 on the southern slopes of the southern range ; and Guillemard 

 found it common at Lefka on the 23rd and at Kykko 

 Monastery (4000 feet) on the 25th of the same month, and 

 noticed it on the Troodos summit (6000 feet) in early June : 

 so that the reports as to its uidification are probably correct. 



107. Daulias Philomela (Bechst.). 



The Thrush-Nightingale has only been recorded from 

 Cyprus by Madarasz, to whom Glaszner sent two specimens 

 taken on April 14th and September 3rd. 



Madarasz mentions the inclusion in linger and Kotschy^s 

 list of a bird called by them "Luscinia philomela Pr. Bonap.," 

 and evidently considers that the authors intended to refer to 

 the present species. But in view of the fact that the ordinary 

 Nightingale, Daulias luscinia, is (as Motacilla luscinia 

 Linn.) indubitably referred to in Sibthorp's list, whilst Lus- 

 cinia philomela (or Philomela luscinia) was quite a common 

 early name for the ordinary Nightingale, I am satisfied 

 that the use of the synonym Luscinia philomela by linger 

 and Kotschy was a mere alteration by them of Sibthorp's 

 nomenclature, and not, as it would otherwise have to be read, 

 an intentional substitution of the one species for the other. 



